FRED BREMNER

Portrait studies, mostly Kashmiri, circa 1900

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FRED BREMNER
Portrait studies, mostly Kashmiri, circa 1900
Fourteen glossy printing-out-paper prints, sizes from 8¾ x 7¾ in. to 11 x 9 in. or the reverse, the majority numbered and/or credited either FB or Bremner in the negatives, six signed, each titled and a few with photographer's ink credit stamp F. Bremner...India on verso. (14)

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Titled as follows: 'Baramulla, Kashmir', 'A Hanje (Kashmiri Boatman)', 'A Typical Yarkundi', 'Specimens of Carving. Kashmiri at work', 'Kashmiri Devotees', 'A Kashmiri...Spinning', 'Ganderbal. Starting stage for the Sand Valley', 'Gardens in the Dhal Lake', 'In the Nighat Bagh (autumn) Kashmir', 'Hindoo Devotees. Kashmir', 'Hindoos (Pundit race) Kashmir', 'In the floating Gardens, Dhal Lake, Kashmir', 'A Punditani. Kashmir' and 'A village Girl. Kashmir'.

Scottish photographer Fred Bremner travelled to Lucknow in 1882 at the age of nineteen to become assistant to his brother-in-law Mr. G. W. Lawrie. A few years later he established his own photographic business which continued for the next forty years and through which he gained a great reputation for his pictorial records of Indian life. He died back in Scotland at the age of fifty-nine.

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